Weapon strength should match number to combatants to be integrated

Kathmandu, 29 March: Government spokesman and Communication Minister Shanker Pokhkrel Monday linked the number of weapons locked up by UNMIN to the number of PLA combatants who will be integrated in state security agencies.
The number of combatants to be integrated should match the weapon strength, he said.
Less that 4,000 weapons are locked up in containers under UNMIN watch but whose keys are with Maoists.
Maoists are demanding all 19,000 combatants should be integrated.
Government is ready to accommodate only 3,000 combatants as per an unwritten agreement with Girija Prasad Koirala and Chairman Prachanda, according to Nepali Congress and government.
The peace agreement is silent of the numbers.
UNMIN has said it isn’t responsible for policing of 28 cantonments and camps that are a hotbed of crime; at least one murder has been reported from a camp in Chitwan.
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Joint general secretaries of RPP, RJP

Kathmandu, 29 March: A joint meeting of RPP and Rashtriya Janasahkti Party (RJP) Sunday appointed Dipak Bohara joint general secretary.
Keshar Bahadur Bista is from the RJP while Bohara rprsents RPP.
Both parties have decided to merge.
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